Metadiscoursive clauses controlled by nouns and adjectives in linguistics research papers
Metadiscoursive clauses controlled by nouns and adjectives in linguistics research papers

Summary/Abstract: This study attempted to investigate the metadiscursive function of stance complement clauses in linguistics research papers, analysing the most common metadiscursive nouns and adjectives. To this aim, twenty research papers published in two indexed journals – the Journal of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Discourse and Interaction (DI) were analysed using Biber’s (2006a) taxonomy of lexico-grammatical stance devices. The findings indicated that academics prefer epistemic nouns to attitude and communication nouns in the selected corpus, yet evaluation adjectives are preferred to epistemic adjectives in the corpus under study. Moreover, the study tries to analyse the distribution of stance complement clauses and the IMRD structure of a linguistics research paper with the highest incidence of stance complement clauses controlled by nouns and adjectives in the Results section.

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